Interesting theory, backed up by data, to explain the difference between Android device sales and browser usage share. "The stock Android browser in previous versions reportedly had problems rendering non-mobile optimized web-pages, leading to lower usage. If a user realized that certain webpages were improperly rendered on a mobile device, it would obviously lead to a drop in future browsing sessions from that device. Meanwhile, on Android 4.0, as consumers have realized that the browsing experience is more "desktop-like", it has led to an increase in browser usage."

It's the problem of illiterate developers, not the problem of browsers.

Not really IMHO. Two reasons:

* Yet again whoever allowed vendor specific extensions made a massive mistake, they assumed that web developers would adhere to recommendation (not many do, which is ignoring the reality of the situation ... they took an idealistic and not pragmatic view). At some point they could have made a line in the sand ... but they didn't have the balls.

* Companies only care about the top X% support, Webkit was there first, was ahead of the game and it was abused because people have mouths to feed.

Back in the day many sites were IE only either. That changed, thanks to Firefox to a big degree.

I could go on about this .. as this is my trade.

But IE was soo damn superior at the time compared to the competition and there were no real standards in place (much like today) there was little point taking anything else seriously.

You can rage all your want about that, but at the time standards supports was a joke and the only browser that came near to it was IE.